Bid Quotes

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. (Thomas Jefferson)
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. View quote
Isaac Watts
A wretched soul bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. View quote
William Shakespeare
So let's bid a not at all fond farewell to the Big Zero - the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing. View quote
Paul Krugman
Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. View quote
Terence
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. View quote
Ouida
Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning." View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. (Dennis Kucinich)
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Hands, do what you're bid Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe. View quote
William Somervile
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And a grief may bid, and evening guest, Bot joy shall come with early light. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The eye-it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will. View quote
William Wordsworth
But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid. View quote
William Wordsworth
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. View quote
Isaac Watts
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree; Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en Death, to die for thee. (Robert Herrick (poet))
Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible. View quote
William Shakespeare
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. View quote
John Milton
And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley